On Tuesday, 11 May, the Cabinet of Ministers supported the amendments prepared by the Ministry of the Interior to the Law on the Register of Natural Persons, which will significantly facilitate the work for employees of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (OCMA) and cooperation partners of OCMA (sworn notaries, Register of Enterprises, State Revenue Service, State Border Guard etc.), providing a uniform and centralized registration and accounting of foreigners, as well as registration of civil deeds in the Register of Natural Persons. The above-mentioned amendments in general optimize and make the services provided by the OCMA more efficient.
Amendments provide to expand the range of foreigners, regarding whom information will be included in the Register of Natural Persons about a foreigner, in relation to whom an entry of the birth or marriage deed is made in Latvia, or who requests a repeated document confirming the registration of his or her marriage or birth deed.
Besides, the amendments plan to determine that the Register of Natural Persons collects the restricted information, because the data volume to be included in the Register of Natural Persons refer to the private life of a person, as well as plans to expand the volume of data to be collected in the Register of Natural Persons with the original form of a personal name in the original language, in order to facilitate inclusion of the data on the name and surname of the foreigner in the Register of Natural Persons, as well as information about the contact address in order to ensure contact with the foreigner.
Prepared by:
Samanta Nalivaiko
Ministry of the Interior Communication Department Public relations specialist
Tel.: 67219082
E-mail: samanta.nalivaiko@iem.gov.lv